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    “It’s healing really well.” Katara tells him with a smile, before her lips quirk down into a frown. “Though it’ll still scar pretty bad.” 

    Zuko shrugs. “It’s ok. I doubt people will really focus on it anyway… the one on my face is a bit more prominent.”

    Katara makes a face, like she’s not quite sure if she should laugh or frown, when Toph speaks up. 

    “You have a scar on your face?” Toph asks, sitting up so she’s sitting by his legs rather than lying on them.

    Zuko blinks. He never quite forgets that Toph is blind, but the fact that she can’t see his scar never really occurred to him.

    “Oh, yeah.” Zuko looks down at his lap. “My father burned like, half my face off before I was banished.” He says it a little too casually, probably not bitterly enough. 

    A crash next to him makes him look up, to see Katara's horrified expression, and a shattered bowl of water at her feet.

    No one says anything for a long moment. 

    “Zuko… it- your dad?” Katara finally manages to gasp out. Zuko blinks at her, his brain moving slowly. 

    “You didn’t know?” He asks in genuine surprise.

    “No.” Sokka wheezes. 

    Zuko blinks at him. “Oh.” Is all he can manage to say. 

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    24 Apr 2026

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    The first thing Zuko tells him during their first lesson after the whole Sun Warrior ruins ordeal, is “Fire comes from the breath.”

    a lesson in learning, and re-learning.

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    24 Apr 2026

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    Ten months after Zuko is crowned at seventeen, he faces his first coup.

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    24 Apr 2026

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    Bumi is one hundred and twelve years old and still around and kicking. Kyoshi grew up to be two hundred and thirty.
    It's perfectly reasonable to assume long life is a trait exhibited by more than just those who are good.

     

    “Why the fuck did no one tell me we were having a cuddle pile?”
    Katara answers before Suki has the chance.
    “It wasn’t exactly planned, Toph.”

     

    Or: Aang meets one of the firebenders who took part in the original Air Nomad genocide, and Suki deals with the aftermath.

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    24 Apr 2026

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    "Zuko dissolved the flame as quickly as he possibly could, landing hard on his ankle and falling to his knees. Somewhere in the back of his mind he registered that his ankle was probably injured now, but he couldn’t really pay any attention to that. All he could see was the terrified look that had been on his little girl’s face as fire—his fire—came rushing toward her."

    After an accident with Izumi, Zuko fears he may be turning out just like his own father.

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